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I it Ubby W44 written by Cnptoln Frank
Inn of rUUdeljhla and appeared
joj tit ftnlnry war i > ai rs tome eight or
tf nifi It is not my purpose to im
m ca thisbut rather to supplement It
iuWrt that escaped Captain Morans
it tt Utber wlikh tha limited spaco
mtlcd hii giving
fttaptln li tinder tho impression that
St tii tunnol mm being built tho fact
mbon to but few men in ths prison
Hit t tia worttug i < arty I reached
turned f J nrlf la NoTember and had not been
aeh l i K > tT5 day or I lcarnod that a
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ujHiei 4ttor ths attempt to reach the
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DiAq tba winter of 63 Ci there were
wco t ln and fourteen hundred ofll
nKflued in Llbby aud excepting the
J wiorty la the hospital at all times tho
ii ind particularly at night were con
UitotUupptr two stories of the building
tiaUhea they lay donn upon tho floor
Jjltonllf coTered it tiio si aco lor each
wfefcfalxmttffo feet by six Even in
tijtka vlieu tha men wore on their foot
U novicfj arouud to keep warm for as tho
wntusd north and south the freezing
M Kt Utterly through the barred and
r miDdoTAi tlicy formed groat throngs
fctowH processions The west room uu
fMnd floor was occupied by Major
vr tad the prison officials the room im
JiboTsthls was known as Mllroys
txz if the number of men of that offb
vimniad who occupied It and tho up
W v t toom known m Straights1 or
w itf becaase of Its cold was ocou
Jnprludpally by officers captured lunr
JJf lj Forreut the preceding > Iny
middle room below which was the
wan opening on Catvy street was called
MTiretChpUmaugn and tho aboo
one
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mP 0oeuMlDif thorn wore captured in
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JMCJt rooms immediately aboe the hos
Witn known as the Upperand Lower
jwi and were occupied by oflleers of
Z rmailJ ot whom belonged to the
J m third corps and were captured at
UiiBd the prison and stationed about
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clianged them and were nimt tlma tWtr i
The > rlsonerii did not whine and nope but
made tho b st of a sltuntlon tiiat did not
se ni tohavo ono redeeming feature in It
Before I ranched Llbbylt snns tnoat ri
tlons ltad been occasionally Issued They
mu t hare consisted principally of bone
judging from the largo quantity of osseous
matter that remained j and on my first in
spectlon tf the prison it seemed to me that
every other man was cutting away at a piece
of bone trying to form it into a napkin ring
a paper cutter with the name of some Ioed
one on It or a most sacrellglous looting cru
cifix The men who put la their time in this
wiywera saltf fcy iieir comrades to Lave
bona on the brain Ono of these cmrt
LieutenantColonel Uenry ofthe Fifteenth
Kentucky cavalry carved some bone articles
that were really exquisite and which sold for
ery high prices In confederate money to the
art connoisseurs of Klohinond Colonel
Henry hal the advantagebowever of having
been a sculptor before the war a calling
which he subsequently practiced with suc
cess Before my coming boxes from friends
In the north had been received by prisoners
under a flag of truce and as thc o contained
not only food and raiment but many books
there was not a dearth of reading mattorln
Llbby but It was so cold that unices a man
vera the owner of an oerooat and a couple
of blankets which few were It was Impost
ble to sit down and read for any length of
UmoWe
We had moot courtsmartial in which men
were tried for offenses real or Imaginary
and invariably couvloted the penalty being
lmprlscnmcut for Ufa unless sooner ex
changed In addition w < had literary and
debating societies and chess clubs and X bate
oven soen boarded men shouting likn boys
oeragameof tag We had also a mlnttrcl
troupoiu Llbby prison the talent of which
would hao dona credit to tho regular stage
This troupe was permitted now and then to
glo performances In the diningroom where
the tables were fitted up as a Biage and
araoDg the audience we frequently had not
only the prison authorities but lnaity promi
nent confederate oflloera from the city who
seamed to enjoy the Jokes even wheu they
were at their own expense as much as did
we Tho leader of this minstrel troupe was
Cuptaln W Mass of tho Eightyeighth
1ennsylvanlaa man whom eery prisoner
remembers with loving gratitude for al
though ordinarily the most quiet and retiring
of mortals he often caused us forgot the
hunger and cold and filth in a hearty laugh
He Is now Colonel Mass and Is I under
stand connected with the custom lioueo at
Philadelphia
One of the most picturesque characters of
tho prison at this time was General Ncal
Dow of Malno who had been captured la
the summer of 1863 in 1ort Hudson I saw
General Dow a few months asro In lortlnd
Maine and he did not look to bo one day
older than when I first met him In Llbby
prison thirty 3 ears ago though I must say
he Is at present much better dressed and
decidedly cleaner In thoso daja General
Dow was cry slender and he looked llko a
retired Turkish pasha with the leg of a red
flannel drawers drawn over his head llko a
MAJOR HAMILTON
fez The general ga e us frequent temper
anco lectures and all his hcaiers were icady
to tako the pledge pro rem and to applaud
hie efforts In the cause of sobrlotj
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GAZETTE FT WORTH TEXAS SUNDAY BXCTJtllsy 29 1891
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Hi t m i n u U1 nero tnr > stwoI
iuw I luutui Uvk vimng inno iw soon
ii ha put on tiio lotlic he was transformed
Into a Icon favrkj North Carolinian and was
their libertj ioiiM Lo gained to go to tho joke I hy hi comrades ou Us rowmblanco to
There was ono remarkable character con
nected with my prison experience whom I
shall never forgot and whoso name I am
sorry to say I haw unfortunately forgotten
but It was William something und he was
an old negro and sold tho Richmond dally
jHipeiB Every morning about daylight the
old man passed the prhxm shouting hU
wares and knowing perhaps that the papers
were not served regularly to the prisoners
ha tried as he walked along the Carey street
front to give us an idea of the news some
thing after this fashion
All ltlchmoiid dally papers 1 Great cav
alry mid along de Iotomao Yankees ad
aneiug on de city I Oreat buttle a gwlne to
be fought I Leoa army Just where fwas
and soon in a long ague and lusty descrip
tion of e ents for all of which he drew on his
own imagination
Immediately after daylight Little Ross
Sergeant Dick Tnmw and ft guard of from
flvo to ton men would enter the prison and
assemble the men In the Upper Iotomao
room from which they were counted out as
before described This was called rolloall
Rollcall orer the men made a wild rush for
ths two store In th diningroom which
would have been wholly inadequate for their
wants had there been anything to cook
At this time our rations consisted of black
beans and corn broad the latter because of
its hardness and the fact that the cobs ap
peared to be ground up with the meal was
Jailed ironclad The only way it could
be made palatable was by reducing it to meal
agoiuand recooUngit in the form of slap
stovelid The mess that
Jacks on tha rusty
to the stove
had a fewVlIow candles grease
or ft piece of ham rind was considered par
te ifwe Mded lntomesWnotby
the rrison authorities but by themwlves
and one of tbelrnumber alwaya drew rations
for the lot Tho men who suffered roost
those from Kentucky t > unesvt and
Southern were Missouri for during the Umo that
supplies were permitted to eon through
under a flog of truce from w g J
eommunieate with the r
men were unable to
out
friends owing to the fact that they were
side linos or to tha hands of tho enemy
our
and so they had to depend on the prisonJ
the credit of the r f ta
tlons but to
nte comrades tt should be M1
reoalved a bo from ms
man vho
every to dMde with his
friends was quite ready
starving comradoa
With alt the dlffleuUics there were soma
remarkable single HATtrom Llbby
twoof which I think wortU recalling totbi
connection The confederates
nnit uniform to be sent
boxes toth prisoners but so long as hm
boxes were received they vronld
tensclothes Tn this m Lieutenant Kupp
it confederal r tict he was not slow to nvnU
himself It was not unusual Tor confederate
offlsen and tlseus to visit the prison with
the guards One morning to tho inexpressl
bloatuurnient of his comrades who saw the
act Kupp fell la behind the guards after roll
call and coolly walked down to tho office of
the commandant Major Tumor Ho permit
ted the guard to pass out and when Major
Turner a smoothfaced young martinet ap
peared frcin his prhate office and asked
WeUaIrr Who tho devil are you Kupp
gave a fictitious name and added
Im from No th KUlnej
D n you J What do ou want here de
manded Major Turner
Waal drawled Kupp as he thoughtfully
stroked Ida chin Bela in Richmond X
thought Id come down and sec tho Tanks
D n your Impudence 1 roared Turner
If you want to see the Tanks go to tho
front 1 Now get out of here as soon as God U
let you or III kick you out r
No you wont kiok me said Kupp draw
ing himself up but if you are so particular
about our darned old prison and oar oussed
Yanks keep em and go to hell 1 And there
upon ho walked coolly out
Most men on finding tbemsolves thus un
expectedly free would haw made what la
tailed a bee hne for liberty but not so with
Kupp H Ing secured a piece of wood he
walked dott n before the prison on the other
sldoof Carey stroetnnd stood there whittling
while he looked up at his astounded com
rades Finally he obeyed their gestures of
warning and started off and I rejoico to any
succeeded in coming through to Gods land
as we then called the north
Another curious escape requiring eten
more coolness and addretw was thutof an
officer from Conuet Ucut whose name I have
forgotten Before the war ho was a merchant
tailor and understood his trade thoroughly
Ho was In a hosplat when ono of tho om
ccrs happenlngjo learn ot his skill atked
him It be could razoo a uniform made for a
larger man so as to fit him The Yankee said
there would be no difficulty If lie was pro
vided with tho necesuiry articles and was
paid for Iho work Confederate money being
then plentiful A hundred and fifty dollars
was advanced and tho gray uniform origi
nally made for an ofllocr who had boon
killed In the front and who hud no more uso
for it was brought Into tho prison Tho
confederate officer was particularly anxious
to haw it done by a certain day as thero
was going to bo a ball In the city and he
w Ished to appear at bis best The tailor as
sured htm that he would not bo disappointed
1 ho ow nor of tho clothes called frequently
In order to have them properly fitted but tho
tailor sawtoltthatnoonegarraont was com
pleted beforo the rest In the north east cor
ner of the hospital thero was a little apart
ment boarded off and known as tho doc
tors office to which the prison physlaluns
had afcuM at all times As soon as tho tailor
had tb uniform completed he proceeded to
try It on himself and as he was at > out tho
plzeof tlie man for whom it had been altered
It fitted him llko a glow With this uniform
on his back and the hundred aud fifty dollars
for fixing it owr In his pocket tho Yankee
went out of tho hospital and advanced boldly
to tho guards
If he had any fear that tho guard would
cballengo hlmlt wasatonco sot at rest for
the soldier seeing the stars of a lieutenant
colonel on his coat brought his musket to an
order and tho disguised Yankeo passed with
out difficult Like Kupp his boldness and
address were requited with success for he
succeeded in coming through to our lines at
Willlainsburgh
About three weeks before the completion
or the great Llbby tunnel General john Mor
gan tho notorious confederate border ranger
visited Llbby fresh from his daring escape
from the penitentiary at Columbus Ohio
I knew Morgan very well and he had mauy
acquaintances in the prison some of tho Ken
tucky officers being his old schoolmates aud
friends He was In high glee Owr his suo
coss and pointed with pride to his short hair
which hod been cut to the regulation for
criminals by the prison officials at Colum
bus
Why said Morgan standing before one
of the windows aud looking out I had a
a n sight harder tost of it than > ou fel
low s and I roado out
Grouped about him when he made this
statement there were a doren men who at
that ery time were working night after
night in tho tunnol which was to beoome tar
more famous and hlstorlo than his Individ
ual escape and the difficulties of which were
far greater
Tho great tunnel has been so often de
scribed and Captain Morans excellent paper
is so familiar to tho public that It w ould sera
llko Iteration to attempt to give a clearer idea
fit Lookingbiok at it theTvonder tome
Is that it was not discovered almost aa soon
as It was undertaken
Aslhave sAid Iheard about the tunnel
scheme soon after reaching Llbby and being
taken sick I had other reasons for the move
also I was sent to the hospital the room
directly owr the entrance to the tunnet
What was ft cellar ou the Carey street side of
the prison the building being ou a slope be
came a buscment on the southern or canal
side In two apartments In the frout part of
this bas mentthe eonlederstes had stored
potatoes corn meal and flour In barrels
This fact was made known to me by Captain
Singer of the Thirtythird Ohio and Captain
Oallogher of Indiana who had pieviouwy
been raiding on the confederate supplies I
was not twenty ears of age at this Umo
indeed I think I was the joungest man in
the prison and had an appetite proportioned
which the hospital
tomy > oars au appetite
rations by no moans gratified The guards
had become mo tlgtfcnt on the south side
ot theprison which deterred myoomrado
from repeating their raids but with the tunnel
In mind I determined
nel as veil as the supplies
mined to reorganise them and thi was done
with consummate success W not f ob
tained supplies for our comrades in tho hos
pital but by moans of a stairs leadlngtotho
lower Iotomao room and a section of plank
romoveS from under the door we were en
abled to get smce up to our comrades to the
P lhrSS or hospital basement literally
swarmed with rats Wo could hear them
scrrtrolng as we moved forward in the Sty
gian darkneis and to their efforts to avoid
us they f requently dashed against our leg
It was about tho middle ot January bt I
determined to Jlnd out form self ot the ex
istence of a tunnsl and a working arty
Captain Wnger who had Un severely
wounded at the battle of Chlekamaugn but
who had recovered and whose lameness was
affected In order to prewct Ms being sent to
tbeupper floors was by my side as wo pushed
forward to the front where we knew the en
trance to the tunnel most be W heard low
said with on oath
TDices and UnaUy a man
from the front V
One of the others suggested that tt m the
rats that made the noiSA While they were
talking I recognized the voted ot my Irlend
Captain Johnson ot the Fifth Kentucky and
advancing made myself and y mission
known
Johnson sld he had Intended to communU
rate the tact of the tunnel to jne whoa It
would have been completed but begged me
for Gods sake to the meantime to say
nothing about it and I acquiesced in hla re
quest I am Mtlsflcd now that had I not
done this but had kept up a communication
between the hospital and the I < ower Potomac
room by means ot the stairs before referred
to and theopening in the hospital floor three
hundred men instead ot ono hundred and
ten men might have escaped through the
tunnel
Already perhaps I have said mora about
myself la this connection Hum I had Intended
to do for it Is not my desire to Dguro as a
Llbby hero or an Important factor In the
great escape X was ono ot thoso who made
the attempt and failed j but among the many
vvld events ot my lite I shall always look
hack upon the night ot February 18C4 as
betog tho strangest
Boon after dart Colonel Rose Major Hamil
ton and Captain Johnson the latlur had been
to the tunnel tor three or four days and was
roportod missing succeeded to getting
through with others w ho were directly to the
recret Those who had heard ot ft tunnel
but knew nothing of it except as a rumor
became at once tha most eager to get through
to Gods land
Asia known access to tho hospital cellar
was had by taking up tha bricks In the back
of the flrcplooe In the Carey street end ot the
diningroom or kitchen
Among the rations aon ed us by the con
federates there wore a few tallow candles for
each ot the Immense rooms These as siwa
as It became dark were lit and fastened to
posts In the different rooms serving merely
to reeal the darkness Ewry night at niud
oclock beginning w lib post No 1 the guards
would shout
Nino oclock Tost Xo I Lights out
up thero you d d Yanks and at once the
tallow dips w ould be extinguished As soou
as tho lights w ere out this night tho men in
great disorderly gangs swarmed altout the
11 replace forgottitig all their previous self
denial and manliness In their wild efforts to
get through to Gods hind About 11 oclock
some ono started tho cry j The guards I the
guards
Whereupon the prisoners shouting and
struggling like demons about the llreplaoo
made a break for tho stairs loading to themp
per rooms and woie soon 1lug anting ou
tho floors inthelrown sleepingplsces Thoao
who had the prosonce ot mind not to be In
fluenced by the alarm had now a clear field
to themsolws aud succeeded In getting
through
Captain Momn says that one hundred and
nine men escaped Thero were really one
hundred and ton of whom fifty were recap
tured Had not tho tunnel boon discovered
on the afternoon ot the 10th the prison
might haw been emptied the following night
K curious Incident which I iaw never heard
rocountod followed tho enemys discovery of
tho escapa The following morning as was
usual the rUoner were assembled Into tho
Upper potamaa room to bo counted Into tho
Upper Chlckamauga Little Rosa well
known to all tho prisoner and who was sub
sequently burnod to death In the Bpotllsw ood
hotil In Richmond kept tally as tho men
passed through He oouutod them by llvos
and when be discovered that 110 men were
gone he hurried and reported tho fact to
Turner who received tho statement with
openejed Incredulity Wh ha is re
ported to have said to Ross the number of
men missing is dlvlsiblo by five You havo
simply made a mistake In your tally
It the prisoners had known the number of
men w ho had gono through the tunnel they
could haw mode up the deficiency and ao
awlded suspicion by having the men jwas
through the west room climb up the posts
to tho roof crawl along the root to the upper
Iotomao room drop down and bo countod
again but unfortunately they did not
Turner appeared In person to supervise a
new count and by this tlin the prisoners
learning that two hundred men wore miss
ing determined to make uplhe defloleucy
and they overdid It It should bo said that
in their rags and with their pale fooss they
Hist boys Theres some one coming to shame
wikDow 01 Liitnr
looked much tllkoandany two might hare
passed for twins The younger nnd more
sctlw men crowded to tha counting place
first passed through reached the Iotomao
room and were counted fttfain and this was
kept up until there were t3 Jnkoestoo
many Turner was at bis wits end He
sworo that it was among the possibilities for
110 men to git out without his knowing it
but by the eternal Jumping lingo 213 Yankees
could not get lu without his bolng aware of
tha tact particularly a he was accustomed
to search each man on his arrival at the
prison rearing a trt < k the men wore all
driven down into the diningroom and then
counted up the stairs oue at a time when
Rons first tally was tomd to bo correct
tlmt
order to create tha impression the
guards had connived at the escape ot tn
prisoners a board had been Knocked out of
the side of one ot the sinks tn ths direction of
the canaland a rope which Colonel Rose bad
used to his flrst tunnel was dropped over to
Indicate that the men hud gone out to that
way As theycoidd not have done this with
out the consent of the guards every man bt
tho battalion then on duty about Libby was
put under arreat
About the middle ot the afternoon ths exit
from tho tunnil to the sr on the opposite
side of the board fence that made sueh ft
good shield In escaping was discovered A
black boy was sent through and reappeared
In tho cellar under the hospital 1 ho secret
was out Tle tunnel hnd bon discovered
but not before It had prored a gateway to
liberty and Gods land for sixty weu
became hUUrieal
Trotn that day A and the
treat Libby tunnel Is destined to rank In his
tory as one of the most gallant wur achieve
ments ot modern times
timesALTLED
ALTLED B CAUOOX
If you are an engaged girl of courr yon
have started a medley trunk Dont you
krfow what a medley trunk is It 1 the
latest tad nnd a wry sensible one too As
soon as tha engagement Is announced the
bride to bo buys a trunk the larger tha bet
ter and then her friends and acquaintances
at onco proceed to ml ltJor her One do
nates a fine table cloth and napkins another
a tew towels or a tit of Uc another a bureau
cover or a couple ot paired glovw ftnd so it
with odds and
goes on graduallyiUng np
nd the gifts fenemus friends until at
last when ths wedding dsy ha actually ar
rived there I a Tarled but valuable assort
ment In the medley trunt that puts aoma of
tho uttorif uitJoss offerings that will be
I stored mj In eats deposit vault completely
LARRY GODM THE POST
One of the Ablest Editorial
Writers In the Country
CHIEF SCRIBE TO THEMUGWUMP PARTY
A nan Known rersonally in 1err o
Thoso lie Opposrslle Has opinions
mid the rournce tn iprnts
Thwu llntrVII Iiw und
MorktUl Home
A much talked of much written ot abused
praised and lltUounderatood man and tdltor
is E I Gotlkln editor of the New York AVw
img JVwi and New York Autfon and ohlef
scribe to the once famous but now dwindling
party known as tha Mugwumps
tty the same token he Is the least known ot
any editor or any political figure In alt New
York des Its the tact that hla name Is con
stantly before the public
MrGodklnls in a way peculiar among the
editors and writers n XewYork In that he
la an editor and writer purs and simple and
nothing elsf Most ot the ether metropolitan
editors have fade ot one sort and another as
for Instance M r Dana who besides editing
tho Svn has a liking for a good bit ol horse
flesh is fond of landscape gardening and th
growing ot mushrooms on his Island home
Dorosls In n neck ot Long Island Bound aud
oth r things
Rut Mr Godkin has no tads asl la from his
newspaper the 1 U The Xatton Is a review
rather than a news or literary i per and his
gentle and leasing pastime of slangwhang
Ing men like Senator David B 1IIH to the one
party or exHenator Thomas O llatt in the
other is his pet pastime
MrGodklnls ot the typo of pubtlamen
who may bu met ht every turn lie Is a man
ot medium stature undslxe with ft kindly
Intellectual face on which Is ft well trimmed
and kept board The face and head are
strong There is character as well as Intel
lect In tho facial lines yet the man looks
what hell a scholar rather than ft man ot
affairs He has pro oJ hlnisolt a man ot af
fairs too so tar as tho conduct of his news
paper la concerned To be su re his business
partner Horace White has attended to the
mere llnanclal > art of holding the New York
AVwiJay Jwt well In the van ot paying alter
B L OODXiy
noon newspapers but Mr Godktn both In
his editorial position and as a irt proprie
tor has done his share In tha sirae work
Godkln htmsnlt made tho Nation what It
w as w hen It w as consolidated with and made
the wookly edition ot tha New York tmn <
t The Nation then stood at tho head of
the literary weeklies of this country This
la of course no relloction on other publica
tions such us Harpers or Ironk Leslies for
tho Yiifion was not tho same class of publica
tion It was established on tho Unfilled plan
It published no Motion or pootry as other lit
erary weeklies did Editorially and through
contributors it reviewed politics literature
art the allied sciences aud educational mat
ters as no other paper In the country did
and It was as fair as It was able and as thor
oughly without favor lu Its criticisms as It
was without bitlerueei
In Uioso dajs as In these days Mr Oodkin
practiced delusiveness He roepocW the
public but ha does not care to come Into over
much contact with It It Is comparatively
easy to ceo Fdltor Charles A Dana to his
office It Is next to Impossible to see Mr
Oodkin In his
fun at him
One of the pocullar I raits that characterise
Mr Oodkin Is his Impasslvenesa under at
tack I know ot but one occasion when he
hae replied to an assault That was about
Uia time when Mr Godkln and his associates
bought tho Now York AVeafno Vuit fron
Iarke Godwin who had been associated with
William Cullen Rryant In its management
JoforobulnglhoiWf Mr Godkln and his
rtnera had been negotiating tor another
New York newspaper Tho bargain was not
made and tho JUt was bought whoroupon
the editor ot tha journal that Mr Godklns
ayndicata had been making propoiwls to con
gratulate tho now proprietor of tho journal
that Mr Rryant had tton editor of upon their
purchase ot a moribund sheet and also as
sured Mr Godkln that ho rould have a fine
ja ooDKia ix ait hudt
time rattling around fa Mr Biyants shoe
Mr Godklns answer was prompt and to
the point He assured the editor of th dis
tressed mind that tl00txi0 or thereabouts
more lad been paid for the alleged moribund
sheet than would have been paid tar that of
the aforesaid editor and that purely business
principle dtetated th tranaactlon Ths
caustic editor did not resent tb Insinuation
ancnt Rryant shoes but Intimated that at
least they were clean a bockhanded dig at
the vdltor of the crttlaot mind that took effect
This is about the only occasion when Mr
Oodkin ha made any answer to any news
paper attack Mr Dana bright young men
have no end ot fun writing about Larry
Oodkin bj they call him of Clougabawn in
Irelaud Oodkin pay not th sUghtost at
tention to this llo goes straight ahead and
says what ha thinks and means and what Is
more stands by his gun to the end Good
judge eay he is tha best editorial writer to
thl wuntry upon general sutjacts He
differ from Dana who short di UU are
models of style in that h doc not write
short editorial Rut bis lonjr schcUrly
leaders are masterpiece to thtrtr way as be
oome th works of a man w ho ho wrltteu a
history of Crete and holds that strength and
i isa < 4 VMw ia it aw a4 Jifc i
beauty may go togethei
the Greek sculp RTOCtf OF STREKT CAHjCOMrJLJE
tors held
This Mugwump editor has brains beyond
any question but he lias another quality that
some men have not credited htm with and
that is pluck X have never known blm to
backdown once a fight was on and he has
bwa more or less anuo > od by men who have
fallen under tha lash ot his criticism Xtut so
far a I can judge the man acts as he thinks
I14 should act and throats do not ruove lilnu
He was called to an account by ft grand Jury
tnNsw York some years ago lor some things
ho had wrjltcm Ht Old nothing except to
prow that oue ot the grand Jurineii had
biwn continuously connected with dlsropul
rdrie house tn the city of New York On an
other occAMlon he was arrested on a Sunday
morning and taken to a station house as a
common criminal booauo ot something ho
had written There was a warrant and tho
shallow headed ofUccr who served it selected
Sunday morning aa the best time to drag the
editor to an account Of course the whole
have been empanelled would have found the
xn oodux os tus BTtrtrr
editor guilty of the charge brought against
htm and no honest newspaper could endorse
the act ot tho policeman Mr Uodkn was
not unduly angry bocamio of the treatment
Ha merely pushed along with a trlflo mora
speed the circulation of a pamphlet in which
tho sins of some ot New Yorks politicians
were sot forth w Ith pointed truth and remarka
ble energy Thero were more throat 1 hey
had a well been divided against a strong
northwost wind And so tht battle lias gone
on Yet Mr Godkln Is a fair general I have
sometimes Imaginud and tt seems that wuy
that be Is one of thoso rare persons whooau
deal with lnanlnthaabstraetslitkeabalaiice
oft hand and yut with raro deftness
3hat Mr Godltn Is fIr > I do not doubt
Thero Is prolmbly no man tn publio life whom
Mr Oodkin dislike a much aa he dors Bona
tor David R Hill whom ho has nlwajs de
nounced a u > ulltlcal gamester without con
science and with only that dexterity that in
polities may wlu Just as It wins to the game
of thimble rigging and the like Especially
Indignant was he when Mr HlUwas fleeted
to the United Btatos Henate and yet when
Senator Hill showed lu a very short tlma that
lie was strong enough to lead some ot tho
leaders In th upper house when ho made
one or two speeches to tho Senate that will
not be soon forgotten Editor Godklu gavo
full credit to tb man whom ho doe not ad
mire He was not small enough to Impute
false methods to tho senator from New Yolk
auto as some leiser men did
Mr Godkln has shown tlutt he cau see the
two aides ot a question uvea mora vocontly
lhem used to be wagors that he would never
denounce anything done by Frosldont Cleve
land whom ha has supiurtud lu all his cam
pulgns but to tha matter ot Hawaii Mr God
kln has broken the record as Indeed h lias
dona before to suoh case as the nomination
to the Italian embnsaadomhlp As for the
test Mr Godkln Is a conscientious man try
ing to do his duty by himself and other men
somotlme falling a men wilt but really
none the worse for that In thoeyoaof sensible
persons
The private life of the editor of 77 AVIon
In of kind with his work > aday existence
Ho live very quietly with his family on West
Tenth street to New York not far away from
that jiart ot I ffill Avouue that once wa fash
ionable tha irt near Washington tiquare
where old N w Yorkers such as ths Coopers
the Hewitts and others still lho Tho Uni
versity buildings to which many famous
literary men and artists l ave livod aro hoar
by and Uia book publishers havo not yet ai
moved up town far from the hlstorlo neigh
borhood The Astor Library but a little
distance away aud lu aomo resfiecta the
neighborhood ha an air ot staid respecta
bility about It that upper Fifth Avenue ia
not The Oodkin family Is not much soen fn
sooiety You nevir boo the names ot any ot
1U members In the owepapcrs a Having to
do with the 100 They can go to the
theatres without being stared at Is their
wish and so they are comfortable mora com
fortable than a good nuny persona are
whoso picture arc In the Illustrated papr
every day
Now and thtm Mr Godkln cop tribute an
article to some of tho English reviews but
only when soma occasion calls for each ac
tion One of these occasions was when Mr
Goldwin Smith lnduged to one of his charac
teristic dlatrles nnd he prWbly still re
member Mr Oodkin treatment of him
This was but one occasion
There liava been other and then is a
demand for anything Mr Godkln choose to
write Hut ha Is Ilka Charles A Dana In on
respect at least Helikestodohlsbeatwork
for bu own paper and docs It
On tha whole aside from Urtng ft man ot
brains Mr lodklu 1 a man who 1 in
teresting to many othor vvays Indeed he Is
a typo of man such a yen do not meet every
day
lOHTEB COATC
Do not talk platitudes to a man who If
hungry An empty stomach Is a savago whom
no power except food can clvlllw Th most
precious logic that svur fell from the lips ot
wisdom Is naught compared with a pound ot
boot
If you happen to b tha mother of twin
daughter dont think it necessity to dress
them Just alike There is nothing so alto
gether depressing wa should Imagine a to
foel that there in another bolng somewhere
near who not only looks juet as wo do but
dresses Identically th same as well Tha
time has passed when It was considered cor
rectly tasblonabla to array th several mem
ben ot the tasdTy to garments that varied only
to else for In cut and trlmrainj they were M
much alike as so msny peas in a pod Good
taste and Utter sense have wrought the
etuvngs but when twin appear then th
distressing tendency crop up again hnd W
two httJo girl in blue pink or green ro
embllng each fiber o closely that thy
sometime get mixed themsclvos Tlds hor
rible catastropheooutd be awlded It th cdl
dren posseted a tlit mdre distinctly orig
iraUt V
Its purchase and t > > w Prominent
Feature of 11 nil Mreet
No financial feature on Wail street hat be
come more prominent ot late yoara than that
connected with the purchase and operation
of streetcar roods and systems Ten years
ago banking bouse had oom > arftUTty Uttl
to do with street car stocksv There were a
tow Arm Uiftt bought and sold the shares ot
thft old horse car lines whenever there hp
tened to be a ma riot for the same Rut they
made no effort to push those stocks In
tart they rathsr regardod Investments to that
line aa prenartout SLd dealings la the stocks
as a waste of time
Today you can buy or tell the shares ot
the street car linos ot all the great cities on
Well street Than are housed that do little
alse but conduct transactions in tbe e enter
prises The loading newspapers both dally
aud financial publish lists Ot quotations of
Upended la notoln a W ufc2 XI tJ SfS
tbemsolve to th linos In New York and
Iirookijn You can operate to the shares t
horse and eleotrio and oabla liou In Newark
Fhiladslphla Chicago Roston RolUmore
Syracuse Albany and Huffabx On banking
house even puts Milwaukee on 1U list and
deals In the shares ot the stmt oar line to
that Western city
Nor Is It an unprofitable business filnca
tho Philadelphia syndicate was formed and
took over th roads In tho Quaker City and
then formed tha Metropolitan Traction Com
pany In New York the demand on the irt ot
Investor for the bonds and stocks ot such
enterprises ha materially increased The
fact crept out that th average street car line
was a wry laying oonaern It appeared that
the lucky Investor who got toon th ground
floor when the line were first butlt bad
reaped a fortune They pad 35 or 50 a
share tor tho stock at Its Inception and after
getting substantial dlvldend tor years found
they could U the same orlgmat shares for
laootofSOOn share In many cases pnr
ohaser tonight stock when the company that
built It was organised out of patitotlc run
tfrrs They wanted to so a line In their
town or tn tits part ot the cily In which they
maided They placed th certificates to thelt
nhj deposit vault as a cort of roll a to be
scrutinised by thoneit generation as a sam
ple ot Uia worthy olUiien and his publtd
spirit
Gradually ths town grew or the section ol
tho city Increased wonderfully In population
Tha Una began to pay One day the publta
spirited cttlieu who aacrlfloed himself for
the In teres t of his follow mon received nottot
that ft dividend would bo paid It Attended
th regular mooting t > tha stockholders ftnd
learned how promising tho Infant project had
become Ihertf was talk ot extending ths
road Ths town or municipal authorities
wore to bo asked to grant au additional Iran
chlao The pntrlotlo a took holder felt pleased
He understood how much tnoro gratifying
profit la than patriotism The days ran along
along and he was offorod par Tor his stock
HediKlIned the offer with dignity Ha had
taught tha stuck nut a an Investment but
tromasonae of duty Ha did not care to
sell He wanted to keep his certificate as a
sort ot souvenir llwtorehewasawareanotlier
dividend and a larger one was declared
Whllo there was little lnarkot for th stock
tweauflp a Ito director explained there
was no stock on Uia market tho worthy cltl
ran heard now and then of sales at prices
considerably above par
If th Investor wots lucky enough to hold
on to his stock still longor he began to hear
ot tho groat suueess ot Uia oabla and then ot
trolley lines Old horse car lines were turned
Into eleclrle systems Houietlmvs th stock
holders subscribed the necessary capital and
converted the stow horsa road Into a rapid
transit road In other oamas outsiders cam
along and after buying up Ute stock and get
ting control ot tha line equipped It w tlh eleo
trlolty About this time the story ot the syn
dioatoappeared to Uto newspapers A collec
tion of capitalist were In search of fairly
prosperous n > ads In growing and thriving
cities Thon came tha promoter In quest ot
option He asked thowortbyoitiroa to give
htm an o > ton on his stock for a few mouths
at a figure thnt sotimed fabulous Frequently
the patriot overlooked his original intentions
Ha concluded to dispose of his souvenirs
After alt he argued tt would b better for his
children to hare cash than ioeraentoe4 Yery
likely ha would live so long anyhow Uiat
something would hav to be done with hla
share H had don his duty In Uia pram
is and he felt ho recognized his duty at
the conclusion Ho he granted the option It
the promoter was smart ho unloaded Uiecon
trolling Interest Uiat he had under OfUou to
a ayudloatt and one day Uia unselfish patriot
disposed of the stock for several hundred
dollars a share Uiat originally cost him twen
tyfive of fifty
The moment tha new owners stepi > odln
they increased the capital stock of U10 former
corporation and 1 < ogan using new bonds In
many cose tha stock was listed on ths local
exchange Dealings In tha shares bocam
frequent and active Then of course tha
tanker eppoared So long a Uie road was a
hoi se concern and the stock was closely held
lie took no Interest In It Now Uiat It wa an
electric Una and Uia share were In demand
ha uame along to boom It and create specula
tion m It He formed a new cJiauuef for the
making ot commissions and It dldnt take
htm long to avail himself of Uie opportunity
This is how Wall street got Into th street
car business Rig banking houses soon
branched out They not only bought and
sold tha stock but they provided capital for
purchasers of profitable roods They sub
scribed for Issues of stmt car bond and
floated them at a neat advance among their
customer Thy advertised that they mad
a specialty of such Investments They gave
heed to the respectable and reputable pro
moter who offered thorn ohanoe to buy up a
road It lent necessary to enumerate Uie
banking concerns particularly engaged In this
department of modern finance It would
probably be hard to Had a house ot high
standing that hani taken a hand In on ot
these enterprises and Isnt today concerned
In Uia welfare and prospocts of surface roads
a they are termed In distinction from rail
road ami sUvatod lines In various portions
of tha country Mtny bonking Institution
act a trustees or fiscal agents tor big traction
and electric companies They place their
bonds for them and see that their stock doe
not depreciate even to periods of panic
Tb elevated railroad antedated th street
oar line logoUlng on the market Jay Gould
and Russell Bags wei responsible for this
They got Ui stock of tho elevated roads In
their Infancy Reted When the cotubinaUon
wa mad and Uie Manhattan Elevated Com
uany was formed Uia stock of the combina
tion wa Immediately Rated on tha New York
Jjtoek Exchange and It has had an active
career ever stoee It soil at a high figure
and when one daring last summer panto
It dropped to par for a day or two It wa con
sidered amazing It racovorsd vary rapidly
however aud has practically regalnad lu for
mer kUbstantlal figures ChlUgo 1 th only
othor city where ttovat i road stock Is on Uia
exchange and maintains a large degree of
acUrltr Tha slock of thdChlcagoroadcon
stantly finds mors or lee of ready sal to
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